THE WANT-AD KILLER

Ann Rule is regarded by many as the foremost true crime writer in America and the author responsible for the genre as it exists today. She came into her career with a solid background in law enforcement and the criminal justice system.

After committing his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death, using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery.